Imprisonment for Life Archives

Accused cannot seek anticipatory bail without successfully assailing order declaring him a proclaimed offender: Supreme Court

There was a declaration of the accused as a proclaimed offender, and such declaration was subsisting on the date of the impugned order, thus, the Supreme Court disagreed with the High Court that the accused was entitled to ‘reform and course correct’.

Case Briefs District Court

“Prosecution has miserably failed to prove ‘misappropriation’ by the accused”; Saket Court acquits accused in economic offences case

In a case pertaining to Criminal breach of trust, cheating, forgery, and falsification of accounts, the Saket District Court acquits the accused, as the prosecution failed to establish the ingredients of the offences beyond reasonable doubt.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court commutes death sentence of a rape and murder convict, due to ill-effects of 10 years of solitary confinement

Supreme Court: In appeal against the judgment passed by the Karnataka High Court three-judge bench of Uday Umesh Lalit*, C.J.,

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Cardinal principle of sentencing policy is that sentence imposed should reflect crime committed in consonance with the gravity of offence

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of S.S. Shinde and M.S. Karnik, JJ., partly allowed an appeal by reducing the sentence of the